Prince Singles Discography
[I’m] not so much into singles, it’s about the book
The 12″ single was born out of the discotheques in the mid 1970s. Prince took full advantage of the format, putting in extended cuts and later fully reimagined versions of the track. Yet Prince always sold more albums than singles as the pubic preferred to hear the song as part of a wider body of work. Such was the standard of his albums.
Prince famously did not always pick the album’s best tracks as singles. Many of his biggest hits were the last songs recorded for the albums, such as 1999, When Doves Cry, U Got The Look, Batdance, Thieves In The Temple, and Gett Off. He would ultimately rack up five number one singles in the US but had to wait until 1995 to achieve his first (and only) chart topping success in the UK. He also scored two number one’s for songs he gave to other artists: Chaka Khan (I Feel For You in 1985) and Sinead O’Connor (Nothing Compares 2 U, 1990). The 1980s was undoubtedly Prince’s iconic era, when his non-album B-sides became much loved by fans. Prince continued to release singles right up until his untimely death in 2016. Across the singles charts of all countries, Prince scored 15 number ones, ranking him the twenty-sixth most successful charting act of all time. Indeed, in the week following his death on 21 April 2016, 2.8 million Prince songs were purchased online.
Here are all one hundred of them, from his tentative first 7″ Soft And Wet which debuted at 92 in the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978, and every commercially released single that followed throughout his near forty-year career. The singles ranked according to their chart success is found on the Prince hit singles page.
Prince Singles in databank 120
Soft And Wet
June 1978
Just As Long As We're Together
November 1978
I Wanna Be Your Lover
August 1979
Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
January 1980
Still Waiting
March 1980
Sexy Dancer
April 1980
Uptown
September 1980
Dirty Mind
November 1980
Do It All Night
March 1981
Gotta Stop (Messin' About)
May 1981
Controversy
September 1981
Let's Work
January 1982
Do Me, Baby
July 1982
1999
September 1982
Little Red Corvette
February 1983
Delirious
August 1983
Let's Pretend We're Married
November 1983
When Doves Cry
May 1984
Let's Go Crazy
July 1984
Purple Rain
September 1984
I Would Die 4 U
November 1984
![1999 / Little Red Corvette [reissue], Prince single (January 1985)](https://goldiesparade.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/prince-1999.jpg)
1999 / Little Red Corvette [reissue]
January 1985
Take Me With U
January 1985
Raspberry Beret
May 1985
Paisley Park
May 1985
Pop Life
July 1985
America
October 1985
Kiss
February 1986
Mountains
May 1986
Anotherlover-holenyohead
July 1986
Girls & Boys
August 1986
Sign O' The Times
February 1987
If I Was Your Girlfriend
May 1987
U Got The Look
July 1987
I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
November 1987
Alphabet St.
April 1988
Glam Slam
July 1988
I Wish U Heaven
September 1988
Batdance
June 1989
Partyman
August 1989
Partyman: Remixes
August 1989
The Arms Of Orion
October 1989
Scandalous!
November 1989
The Scandalous Sex Suite EP
December 1989
The Future
May 1990
Thieves In The Temple
August 1990
New Power Generation
October 1990
New Power Generation EP
November 1990
Gett Off
July 1991
Gett Off EP
August 1991
Cream
September 1991
Cream EP
November 1991
Insatiable
November 1991
Diamonds And Pearls
November 1991
Money Don't Matter 2 Night
March 1992
Thunder
June 1992
Sexy MF
June 1992
My Name Is Prince
September 1992
My Name Is Prince EP
October 1992
7
November 1992
Damn U
November 1992
7 EP
December 1992
The Morning Papers
March 1993
2gether
August 1993
Pink Cashmere
August 1993
![Controversy [reissue], Prince single (October 1993)](https://goldiesparade.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/controversy-1993.jpg)
Controversy [reissue]
October 1993
Peach
October 1993
The Most Beautiful Girl In The Word
February 1994
The Beautiful Experience EP
May 1994
Letitgo
August 1994
Space
November 1994
Purple Medley
March 1995
Get Wild
March 1995
The Good Life
June 1995
Super Hero
August 1995
Eye Hate U
September 1995
Count The Days
September 1995
Gold
November 1995
Girl 6
March 1996
Dinner With Delores
June 1996
Betcha By Golly Wow!
November 1996
The Holy River
January 1997
![The Holy River [Part 2], Prince single (January 1997)](https://goldiesparade.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/holyriver2.jpg)
The Holy River [Part 2]
January 1997
NYC Live!
January 1997
The Truth
February 1997
Come On
October 1998
![1999 [reissue], Prince single (December 1998)](https://goldiesparade.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/1999remaster-200.jpg)
1999 [reissue]
December 1998
1999: The New Master EP
February 1999
The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
October 1999
The Greatest Romance Ever Sold EP
November 1999
U Make My Sun Shine / When Will We B Paid?
April 2001
Peace
April 2001
Supercute
April 2001
The Daisy Chain
April 2001
The Work Part 1
November 2001
![Days Of Wild [Live], Prince single (June 2002)](https://goldiesparade.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/daysofwild.jpg)
Days Of Wild [Live]
June 2002
![Controversy [Live In Hawaii], Prince single (March 2004)](https://goldiesparade.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Controversy-Live.jpg)
Controversy [Live In Hawaii]
March 2004
Musicology
August 2004
Cinnamon Girl
September 2004
S.S.T.
October 2005
Te Amo Corazón
December 2005
Black Sweat
February 2006
Fury
March 2006
Guitar
July 2007
F.U.N.K.
November 2007
![Dance 4 Me [Icon Remix], Prince single (September 2009)](https://goldiesparade.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/dance4meus.jpg)
Dance 4 Me [Icon Remix]
September 2009
Extraloveable
November 2011
![Dance 4 Me [reissue], Prince single (December 2011)](https://goldiesparade.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/dance4me.jpg)
Dance 4 Me [reissue]
December 2011
Rock And Roll Love Affair
November 2012
Screwdriver
February 2013
Fixurlifeup
May 2013
Breakfast Can Wait
September 2013
The Breakfast Experience EP
October 2013
Pretzelbodylogic
February 2014
Fallinlove2nite
March 2014
The Breakdown
April 2014
Baltimore
May 2015
Hardrocklover
July 2015
This Could B Us
August 2015
Free Urself
September 2015
The single The Arms Of Orion was released on 17 October 1989 in support of Batman. Discover the background and more behind this release in our complete Prince discography.
© Goldies Parade, 1998 – 2026 • Privacy